Gru: [Explaining why the girls can't find their book "Three Little Kittens"] That book was accidentally destroyed maliciously...
Tevye: As the good book says, if you spit in the air, it lands in your face.
Book Lady: Okay, young man. That'll be twenty five cents. Lesra: 25 cent? Must not be much of a book.
[Outmaneuvering Rommel] Patton: [referring to Rommel's book, 'Infantry Attacks' or 'Infanterie greift an'] Rommel... you magnificent bastard, *I read your book*!
[Book moves to intervene against some locals harassing the Amish] Eli Lapp: It's not our way. John Book: It's my way.
I think it's crazy, crazy that book tours lose so much money. They shouldn't. Book tours should be part of what keeps independent bookstores vibrant and profitable.
When you write a book, you are asking someone to make an investment in their time and money. A column can come and go as the weeks pass, but a book needs to be timeless.
Electronic distribution is more of a fall-back strategy for putting out a book that isn't deemed profitable enough to print. You hardly make any money publishing an electronic book.
A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
I feel luck plays a vey crucial role in determining the success of the book. Marketing a book is also very important. You need to try all tricks in the trade.
I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.
With my first book, 'A Letter to a Young Brother,' I figured it would be my only book I was ever going to write. What happened with that is a lot of young men would reach out to me.
If you look through the shelves of science books, you'll find row after row of books written by men. This can be terribly off-putting for women.
I watch comic book movies. Give me 'The Avengers,' give me 'Thor', those are my area. But I don't watch comedies.
The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.
One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?
When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books.
I used to tell my writing students that they must write the books they wished they could come upon - because then the books they hungered and thirsted for would exist.
Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!
My mother was an avid reader...She loved books about romance. Books that took place in faraway places and times. Stories with costumes...
